Bill de Blasio Quotes

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

Here's the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.

I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

A political genius is a man ... who has accidentally been on the winning side in the last campaign and is about to be on the losing side.

Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she's too smart. She won't come to the tents.

If 2016 taught us anything, it's that President Trump's political prowess should not be discounted or underestimated.

After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze.

Essentially, how do you go after [Donald] Trump to have a real shot of taking back control of Congress in 2018? Democrats will need to energize not only their base, but also pick up actual swing voters who could be turned off from President Trump.

Democrats losing elections. Donald Trump did win this. It's not illegitimate. And when the day comes that they realize and sober up that he's not going to be hounded out of office, that he's not gonna wake up one day and say to Mike Pence, "Here. Take the keys. I've had it." Then what are they gonna do? Because they're shooting every barrel they've got now. And they will probably continue. The think least we can make people hate him.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

In every American election, crazy things are said. Positions are taken which the winners try very hard to forget afterwards.

Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.

I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.